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Quotes About Experience

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
~ Ann Landers
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
~ Ben Okri
Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
~ Bernie Siegel
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
~ Bill Rodgers
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
~ Carl Jung
Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
~ Gary Paulsen
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
~ Havelock Ellis
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
~ Henry James
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
~ Iimani David
...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.
~ JoAnn Ross
The aim of living is life itself.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
~ Richard Pryor
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
~ Robert W. Service
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
~ Sean Connery
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
~ Steve Nash
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
~ V. S. Pritchett
Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.
~ Wayne Dyer
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
~ Virginia Woolf